Editing Rimmon (section)

===Syrian deity===
{{main|Hadad}}

Rimmon ("[[pomegranate]]" in Hebrew)<ref name= Zon>{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last= Tenney |editor-first= Merrill C. |editor-link= Merrill C. Tenney |entry= Rimmon |encyclopedia= The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible |year= 1975 |via= BibleGateway |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Rimmon |access-date= 29 July 2024 |title= Rimmon - Encyclopedia of the Bible - Bible Gateway }} Citing [[Aapeli Saarisalo |A. Saarisalo]], ''Topographical Researches in Galilee'', JPOS, IX (1929), pp. 27-40; [[F.-M. Abel]], ''Géographie de la Palestine'', II (1938), pp. 437 and passim; [[W. F. Albright]], ''The List of Levitic Cities'', [[Louis Ginzberg]] Jubilee Volume (1945), English section, pp. 49-73; [[Yohanan Aharoni |Y. Aharoni]], ''The Land of the Bible'' (1967).</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Klein |first= Reuven Chaim |year= 2018 |title= God versus Gods: Judaism in the Age of Idolatry |publisher= Mosaica Press |pages= 351–354 |isbn= 978-1946351463 |ol= 27322748M |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx9xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA351 |access-date= 29 July 2024}}</ref> was a [[Aram (region)|Syrian]] deity mentioned in the [[Second Book of Kings]] ({{bibleverse|2|Kings|5:18|NKJV}}), to whom a temple was dedicated. In Syria, this storm god was also known as [[Hadad]] (interpreted to mean "the breast" in [[Biblical Hebrew]])<ref>{{cite web |last= Klein |first= Reuven Chaim |date= August 2017 |title= Nursing from the Good |publisher= Ohr Somayach |series= ''What's in a Word?'' |url=https://ohr.edu/11764}}</ref><ref>Klein (2018), pp.[323-[https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx9xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA324 324].</ref> or [[Baal]] ("the Lord"), and in Assyria as [[Hadad |Ramanu]] ("the [[thunder]]er", when borrowed from [[Akkadian language| Akkadian]] - cf. Akkadian ''ramanu'', "to roar").<ref name= Zon/>

According to the biblical narrative, the Aramean commander [[Naaman]], having been healed of his [[leprosy]] by the Israelite prophet [[Elisha]], requested pardon from God for continuing to minister to the [[List of Syrian monarchs|King of Syria]] who would continue to worship in the Temple of Rimmon. Elisha granted him this pardon.<ref>{{bibleverse|2|Kings|5:19|NKJV}}</ref>